Improving patient to nurse ratios

IMPROVED ratios will see an extra 500 employed in Victorian hospitals, the state government has announced.

Legislation was introduced last week to enshrine further improvements to nurse and midwife to patient ratios.Amendments to the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act complete what was started last year when the government legislated improvements to add an extra 600 nurses and midwives.

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